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Is this error something anyone has seen before?

MattspanMattspan Posts: 5
edited September 16, 2024 9:26AM in U.S. Coin Forum

This is the error on a 1916-D penny. I call it a “crooked i in Liberty”

Is it just a one off? Value?

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  • Not trying to argue with you but it does not seem like that. Where the i should be is perfectly smooth . It looks exactly like the i was struck that way not gouged or struck with a metal object

  • JBKJBK Posts: 15,571 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 16, 2024 9:39AM

    And just how do you think the "I" got bent on the die? 🤔

    It's damaged, as noted.

  • JBK Hmm? I dont know how it could have been damaged when pressed but with my first post i am glad there are people on here that are 100% positive in their expansive knowledge ty for your responses!

  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,095 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Mattspan said:
    JBK Hmm? I dont know how it could have been damaged when pressed but with my first post i am glad there are people on here that are 100% positive in their expansive knowledge ty for your responses!

    @JBK IS one of the knowledgeable people on this board. He was trying to get you to think for yourself so you can understand that type of damage. I have collected error coins since the 1970's. You're about the 5,000th person that I know of that thinks this type of damage is an error.

  • Enjoy your coins ty for your response

  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,095 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Mattspan said:
    Enjoy your coins ty for your response

    Enjoy your new found knowledge ty for asking

  • JBKJBK Posts: 15,571 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It is important to understand the minting process and then visualize how something could, or could not, have happened.

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 34,190 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Mattspan said:
    Not trying to argue with you but it does not seem like that. Where the i should be is perfectly smooth . It looks exactly like the i was struck that way not gouged or struck with a metal object

    If it were struck that way, there would be thousands of them.

    What you see is very common of the coin takes a strike in the one. The metal was moved to the left.

    There is no way for that to happen at the Mint. 100% certainty that it is not an error.

    Welcome!

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 34,190 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Mattspan said:
    Enjoy your coins ty for your response

    @Byers is one of the biggest error coin dealers and foremost experts in the country.

  • Morgan13Morgan13 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This is an error within an error.

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  • scubafuelscubafuel Posts: 1,850 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Hi Matt, you can see the evidence of the hit that moved the metal in the “I” in your second picture. It left a shallow dent in the field.

  • BStrauss3BStrauss3 Posts: 3,413 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Please don't post cell phone pictures of microscope images. Pull the card out and use the image directly.

    The double pixelization hides most of what we're looking for. Many of the people you are asking for help will see the garbage images and just move on. Help us to help you.

    -----Burton
    ANA 50 year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
  • Manifest_DestinyManifest_Destiny Posts: 6,896 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Morgan13 said:
    This is an error within an error.

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,328 ✭✭✭✭✭

    post mint damage

  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,344 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If you don't agree with the responses to your post then it is time to step up and send it in to a TPG. That costs money. How sure are you that the people on this forum are wrong?

    All glory is fleeting.
  • Thank you all for your thorough and concise responses. As a newcomer to coins and collecting i will be careful in the future about asking followup questions! I appreciate those with the patience for folks like me who need further explaining and those who responded . I am 100% satisfied that this is not a mint error and is not anything special. Feel free to delete this post or shut it down thank you.

  • giantsfan20giantsfan20 Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭✭

    Could be damage caused by the coin wrapping machine that crimps the end of roll?

  • GreenstangGreenstang Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Coin wrapping damage would push it inward, not outward. It is
    just damage from taking a hit.

  • emeraldATVemeraldATV Posts: 4,569 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @sellitstore said:
    Someone just obviously just smudged the "1" while the ink was still wet. Not hard to explain. ;)

    LoL..I don't get it ?

  • JBKJBK Posts: 15,571 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Mattspan said:
    Thank you all for your thorough and concise responses. As a newcomer to coins and collecting i will be careful in the future about asking followup questions! I appreciate those with the patience for folks like me who need further explaining and those who responded . I am 100% satisfied that this is not a mint error and is not anything special. Feel free to delete this post or shut it down thank you.

    The idea is to leave threads out as references for other people who might have a similar question.

  • WAYNEASWAYNEAS Posts: 6,715 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Que the troll!.
    Wayne

    Kennedys are my quest...

  • jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 9,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It is definitely a one off. Probably not another coin damaged post mint exactly like that one. Send it in for grading.
    Jim


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  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,108 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Manifest_Destiny said:

    @Morgan13 said:
    This is an error within an error.

    A mystery wrapped in an enigma.

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